Cattle Take the Train Down to Ashburton ; the Picture in Lincoln Shaw's Column Last Wednesday of Cattle Gathered in the Streets of Ashburton Recalls for Me, in Junior School Days, When I Lived On the Daison Estate.

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The picture in Lincoln Shaw's column last Wednesday of cattle gathered in the streets of Ashburton recalls for me, in junior school days, when I lived on the Daison estate.

My daily walk to school took me through Wrights Lane - where the houses were then being built, by Cavanna if I remember rightly - across Lymington Road and up Penny's Hill, close enough to the abattoir in Parkfield Road to hear the shrieks of the pigs, presumably meeting their end.

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Cattle Take the Train Down to Ashburton ; the Picture in Lincoln Shaw's Column Last Wednesday of Cattle Gathered in the Streets of Ashburton Recalls for Me, in Junior School Days, When I Lived On the Daison Estate.

It was not until a few years later, when we had moved to Shiphay, and it was now a walk to the Boys Grammar School in Barton Roa...

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